- Took some heat for recommending $100+ pillows while steadfastly maintaining (a) if we made these ourselves they would be extremely ugly and (b) there are several other things there for many fewer dollars!
- That is all, roughly. As usual, we will love you love you love you if you wouldn’t mind clicking on one of those ads.
At long last! Though not, thank God, as long as last time:
1) To the closest million, how many more women than men are there in the U.S. according to the 2000 census?
Five million. The answer was not, tragically, 5.XXX million, or 1XX million or whatever it is the total number of women in this country is.
2) What is the president’s annual salary?
$400,000. And this is, we will reveal, the question that kept us from winning stupid Quiz Night on Tuesday.
3) Who played the lead female role in The Sure Thing, opposite John Cusack?
Daphne Zuniga! Check out the hair and sweater roughly to the left!
4) At what univerisity is the film St. Elmo’s Fire set?
And: Georgetown.
The winners!
Sara H.-S.
Anna O.
and Jessica E.
Send your shoe sizes and addresses promptly to: thumper at bunnyshop dot org, please-ish.
We found 2 Modern while looking for somewhere to buy things from K Studio, which we adore. Like: this pillow! Love it. It is not cheap, however. K Studio cottages pillow, $116
We would, to be honest, rather spend $116 on a “scrim” or other art-looking thing than on a pillow. This is the only K Studio scrim available at 2 Modern. It is not our favorite, but it serves as a worthy example. K Studio rain scrim, $116
This photos actually look a little dull-er than K Studio’s stuff should—it’s lovely! Maybe this pillow, from Branch Home, is a better example. Hawaii flowers! Has anyone out there read Susanna Moore’s The Whiteness of Bones? Oh, but it is one of our very favorites, and Hawaii flowers are a crucial part. K Studio Hawaii pillow, $122
What we like about Branch, besides the nice ‘n’ bright photos, is that they have a whole section devoted to things that are under $50. Good God, we are such suckers for those sorts of things. If we had any daylight in our basically-underground room we would totally get these Garden in a Bag herbs, $8….
Actually we sort of want everything in this section. Also including: this adorable hand puppet, which we are totally buying for a small child we know (leopard hand puppet, $18)….
Or these excellent and useful bamboo bowls. Not for the small child, but for ourselves. Sustainability, etc! Bamboo bowls, from $24
What to think of Helena Christensen’s new fashion line? We are thinking maybe this is just what models do when done modeling, if not participating in Dancing With the Stars. We are also thinking that at some point she heard “Jovovich Hawk” and it just stuck in her head until they came up with “Christensen and Sigersen.” Confusing.
Oh, we don’t know. We’re thinking it looks a little too Banana Republic to be breaking out wallets open. No?
So it has been revealed that we appearently suck at Google searches, but thanks to Laura H., we have discovered an online vendor for Ann Marie Lawson, whose work we discussed yesterday. It is, it turns out, not at her own site, but at “Shop Orange Button.” We’re not sure about that name, but sure enough. We think we’d be happier with the full selection, but lacking that, we do rather like this. It is not our favorite, we must say, but support her we will. Er, would. You know.
Sweden! We love Sweden. We visited Stockholm last summer, over “midsommar,” and, because it was sommar, did so in our Havaianas and a mini-skirt, and then spent the next 72 hours shivering in the rain. We will say that our hostel room was so deliriously nice that we would have happily lived there forever.
Anyway: Swedish clothing. Non-H&M Swedish clothing. We are so into it because it is not quite what we have seen like 6000 times everywhere here. Like: Dagmar! This cardigan! We love it. That sweater is gorgeous, no? And this one conveniently is available at Blaec, so you’re only dealing with shipping from California. Dagmar Ceres sweater, $275
So the problem is, to get beyond that sweater (which we love, and ignoring a dress we do not also from Blaec), we need to actually ship from Sweden. This is expensive, but possible, and possibly even worth it. Like this sweater. Love it. The problem is we can only link to the store, Mint and Vintage, rather than straight to the item, so just please hit the Dagmar spring collection button. Anyway: Dagmar cardigan, about $270
We are getting increasingly more enthusiastic about strapless tops as the season progresses. By May we should be all of the way there. Dagmar straples top, $142. That’s a lot for a cotton top but NB that sweet double layer at the bottom! Mm, maybe that makes it worth it, maybe not.
We are just so into basically everything at Mint and Vintage. Also please be sure to check out Camilla Norrback: Isn’t this top cute? CN crease top, $92
And these jeans, which we imagine we actually impossible to wear, look cute, at least in this one, very limited position. CN jeans, about $195
We just can’t stop the independent jewelry … er, train. Look! Lovely! We love Mother of Pearl Swallow Pendants. What else can we add? We will say this: Today, on our way to school, we passed by the Good Vibrations store, and we were like, meh, if anything. But then we got to BART, and there we actually saw this man carrying a Good Vibrations tote bag. Now if people want to come to our neighborhood and pick up their bizarre (though we do not judge! we do not! not really entirely but perhaps a little!) sex toys, fair enough. But we were just flabbergasted that someone would flaunt their sex-toy-shop tote bag.
Now okay! So we have a slightly revamped contest, sponsored—we can never believe this—by Easy Spirit. Here is how it works: We ask a few questions. First one with the answers wins. You get a free pair of shoes, whee! They send them out, and then you write up a little report on how you like them. This report does not have to be especially involved. Everyone wins!
Well, as we were thinking, everyone wins but us, last night, at Quiz Night. And so to select the winners, amongst those who would like to win a pair of brand-new (obviously) Easy Spirit shoes, we ask the following questions that we missed:
1) To the closest million, how many more women than men are there in the U.S. according to the 2000 census?
2) What is the president’s annual salary?
3) Who played the lead female role in The Sure Thing, opposite John Cusack?
4) At what univerisity is the film St. Elmo’s Fire set?
Okay! First three correct emails wins the prize. And: new email address! Send us your answers here.
Our favorite e-mail of the week, from our Indian (Mumbai-via-Massachusetts) friend: 
What to think of Helena Christensen’s new fashion line? We are thinking maybe this is just what models do when done modeling, if not participating in Dancing With the Stars. We are also thinking that at some point she heard “Jovovich Hawk” and it just stuck in her head until they came up with “Christensen and Sigersen.” Confusing. 
Oh! Harry Potter cover! This is the adult UK version, versus 
We mention this because we had previously highlighted this particular bag. 
We just can’t stop the independent jewelry … er, train. Look! Lovely! We love Mother of Pearl Swallow Pendants. What else can we add? We will say this: Today, on our way to school, we passed by the Good Vibrations store, and we were like, meh, if anything. But then we got to BART, and there we actually saw this man carrying a Good Vibrations tote bag. Now if people want to come to our neighborhood and pick up their bizarre (though we do not judge! we do not! not really entirely but perhaps a little!) sex toys, fair enough. But we were just flabbergasted that someone would flaunt their sex-toy-shop tote bag. 
